Sword Volleyball

[Galactian]

rq patch:
fixed bug where you would stay stunned during your serve after getting scored on
increased stun time from 1.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds

i want stuns to force you to send an easy ball over

play the bot! it’s the best ai on flowlab, and ik you want proof!

Sword Volleyball

Thinking of a name for this one currently But decided to post it as the ai is getting exceedingly better every day. just teaching it to spike rn and it should be nearly as good as me. The amount of dumb math this required has forced me to write all it on paper to visualize it. I’ll add some scoring system later, and this will eventually be made multiplayer because it has less things to sync than in bladeball.

link in this message

[thebrickccentric]

Does the bot get stunned too? (I’m on mobile right now so I can’t test)
I sure hope so, so that it remains fair

[Galactian]

yeah ofc, u can see him get stunned in the video

[Galactian]

v1.11 update:

added:

• indicator that shows the x value of the ball when it’s above the screen
• thicker particle trail for stun hits
  ai changes:
• ai should be better at hitting the ball over the net when their set is going forwards
• ai should be slightly better at blocking / saving the ball nearby their net
• ai is slightly smarter when stunned by a hit and tries to pop the ball up more

[Galactian]

ACHIEVEMENTS UPDATE

Version 1.2 is out!

New features:

Speed for hitting a stun hit reduced by 2%

Better explosion effects, effect also happens when you touch a ball moving super fast

When you hit the ball super f*cking fast (like so fast it’s nearly impossible to do consistently) instead of the purple effect you get a golden effect (shown below), just a visual change but it looks cool af

16 new achievements!

• Achievements for scoring a perfect hit of speeds 65, 70, 75, and 80
• Achievements for scoring different serves, starting at just an ace but the most difficult one requires you to hit a golden serve and ace the ai without the ai even touching it
• Achievements for beating the ai by lots of points or just beating him in general
• Hidden Achievements that you get for some things, ranging in difficulty from just saving a stun hit to saving a ball that is way out of bounds

Ai Changes:

• ai holds block formation for longer, so he should be blocking the ball more
• ai pulls back more for hits where the set is moving quickly left
• ai uses a slightly different formula for rotating for saving the ball so he should be more consistent

50 minutes of sword volleyball

[Galactian]

noticed not as many people play this game anymore

why?

• game is too hard (ai needs an easier version)
• game is too hard to learn (needs a tutorial and training)
• i don’t enjoy this genre of games

eventually i’mma add all of these things but i need to know which is most important to do first

[JUSTPLAINOP]

I still play it quite often. And please don’t make the Ai easier, that wouldn’t be as fun.

[CodeAlpaca]

Haven’t gotten around it mostly, been busy lately on a lot of school work and other stuff

[Galactian]

i’m most likely just going to make a version of the bot that doesn’t hit so you can train without having to play defense very much

[Galactian]

sword volleyball test 4 (v1.2 update)

video of new update

[JJDev]

Very Cool!

[Galactian]

v1.21 update

• added a new tier of achievement, tier 5 (secret achievements)
• 2 secret achievements

ai improvements

• better hitting, ai will stun u more often now
• better control on fast spikes

roadmap sort of in order

• main menu
• tutorial and advanced tutorial
• much cooler scoreboard
• ai difficulties

[Galactian]

some slight changes

velocity required for ball to turn gold changed from 120 → 130
sound effect changed for gold hits
added new effect for purple and gold hits
slightly altered ai hitting again cus why not

going to be adding a new serving system where you can control how high the ball gets tossed (ai will use it too)

[Galactian]

update v1.2.2, serving update

• new bar added to control height of your toss (ai will use it too), jump to time it
  
  
  
  if u hit it high it goes rlly high, if u hit it low it barely goes up so middle is best unless you are trying to hit a screamer

minor changes:

• reduced velocity required for ball to turn gold from 130 → 125
• movement speed while stunned increased from 6 → 8 (base speed is 24)
• fixed game crashing when you go on ai side

ai changes:

• ai hitting altered to be consistent on high sets (or tosses while serving)
• changed rotation while saving slightly

if u have any ideas pls tell me

[Galactian]

removed make it take it serves cus yall wont tell me what is wrong with the ai and how to cheese it (pretty sure it has to somehow do with make it take it serving)

reset leaderboard

u can be proud of ur win but pls tell me what’s wrong with the bot so i can improve it

[Galactian]

@kade pls tell me what the cheese is so i can fix my bot
next time just report it and dont abuse it cus now i have to remove everyone’s scores

[kade]

Sorry, I don’t understand.

[CodeAlpaca]

How do you know he cheesed it and don’t just grind?

[JUSTPLAINOP]

Huh? I know Kade irl and he’s been raving about this game for a while.

I doubt he cheesed.

[Galactian]

i just don’t think it’s possible to go from losing to the bot to beating it 11-2, but if you really didn’t cheese it kade can prove it to me by beating it like that again
then i’d have to admit i was wrong

but yeah like over the last few days i’ve watched some guy slowly go up the scoreboard from -11 to -5, it’s not realistic to go from getting ur as kicked to beating the sht out of the bot